Jose Cruz lost his life over an argument involving two women in a bar.

Jehova Gonzalez followed Cruz outside the Horne Road watering hole — a gun clasped in his right hand.

A bar employee heard at least five gunshots in the August 2017 parking lot attack.

Bar video footage shows Gonzalez firing several rounds as Cruz tries to escape by hiding behind a vehicle. Gonzalez continued the attack before Cruz fell to the ground.

The gun malfunctioned, but after fixing it, Gonzalez "then shoots Jose approximately three more times in the head while Jose is laying face down on the ground," according to the probable cause statement.

Gonzalez, 30, left the bar parking lot, but didn't stay away.

He returned, having showered but still wearing the same clothes from the time of the shooting, to admit what he had done, the document states.

"I'm the one who did it," he told police. "I shot that man. I came to turn myself in."

Gonzalez once again admitted he'd shot Cruz in court Monday. This time, before a state district judge.

Standing before 28th District Judge Nanette Hasette, Gonzalez plead guilty to murder, in accordance with a plea deal. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison, a term agreed on by Gonzalez's defense attorney and prosecutors.

His trial was expected to begin this week, court records show.

Gonzalez was arrested after Cruz, 38, was found dead, lying face down in a parking lot in the 2300 block of Horne Road.

The medical examiner's office said Cruz died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

Gonzalez was indicted for murder, a first degree felony, in November, court records show.

When Gonzalez turned himself into police, the "pistol grip or handle of the weapon" was in his right back pocket, the document states. Blood and tissue splatter was observed on his shirt.

"It was self defense. I finished it but I didn't start it," Gonzalez told investigators.

Cruz's two sisters attended Monday's court proceedings.

Cruz's sister, Jeanette Esquivel, told Gonzalez he was forgiven for his actions during her victim impact statement.

"Myself and my siblings forgive you," she said. "... We would like for you to sit in jail and think about all the damage that you've done for us."

Gonzalez nodded his head as she spoke for much of the statement.

Esquivel told the Caller-Times it took prayer to forgive Gonzalez. She says she prays daily.

"For me to forgive him is what I've learned," she said. "To forgive someone because I know that's what God has us do is forgive."

Still, Esquivel said she wishes Gonzalez would have received life in prison.

She said her brother and Gonzalez were strangers before that August night.

"My brother, I understand he was at the wrong place at the wrong time," she said. "But my brother has always been a good man."

Gonzalez will receive credit for time served and waived his right to appeal. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors said a separate case dealing with a controlled-substance possession charge would be dismissed.